Friday, 26 May 2017

Claire Young recently joined thousands of people marching for fairer
funding for our schools - parents, children, teachers and fellow Lib
Dems - at the Fairer Funding for Schools rally.

The Liberal
Democrats would invest £6.9bn more in our schools and colleges over the
next parliament, to ensure no school and no child loses out. That would
mean £26m more in schools and colleges in South Gloucestershire,
including £1.3m to protect the Pupil Premium, introduced by the Liberal
Democrats to help the most disadvantaged children.

In contrast,
the Conservative government is proposing deep cuts in many school
budgets - schools with the most disadvantaged children are likely to
face the biggest funding cuts. According to figures from teachers'
unions NUT and ATL, local secondary schools face cuts equivalent to up
to a dozen teachers. Primary schools face cuts of 1, 2 or 3 teachers.

You can look up the impact on your local school here: http://www.schoolcuts.org.uk
- it's noticeable that although Claire has pledged to support the
campaign against the school cuts, at the time of writing neither the
Conservative nor the Labour candidates for this constituency have even
responded.

Claire has been continually pressing for clarity about
the situation at Winterbourne and Yate International Academies and
supporting parents campaigning for better funding for schools. Please
support our campaign by signing our petition at www.claireyoung.org.uk/schoolcuts

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